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ďA strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."
-Thomas Jefferson

__________________"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

"The fact that one army was fighting for union and one for disunion is a political expression; The actual fact on the battlefield, in the face of canon and musket,
was that Federal troops came as invaders, and the Southern troops stood as defenders of their homes, and further than this we need not go."- Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

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I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.]-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799http://abaddoncomic.com/

They have some differences, but the things that affect us the most such as foreign policy and the economy they're both about the same. Just different rhetoric. Obama preaches for better civil liberties....but still encourages wire taps, gun control, kill lists, and federal conflict with state marijuana laws.